the morning benders @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. I had originally planned to post my most-Fridays list of inspiration today, but with Alex Chilton’s passing on Wednesday evening, I think the day is better devoted to rounding up some of the best writing about Chilton out there. Alex Chilton had a hit at…
baseball: princeton @ unc, game two
baseball: princeton @ unc, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Eight. For as long as I can remember, every year for my birthday the NCAA has given me the first weekend of the men’s basketball tournament. It’s a pretty nice gift, as far as gifts from strangers who are also huge faceless entities go; it’s…
drive-by truckers — the big to-do
drive-by truckers @ the lincoln, night one, originally uploaded by minervacat. Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do. Out 3/16, ATO Records. Okay, true confession time: when I think of Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, I think of it as an album I don’t like very much. This is a bizarre fallacy of logic, because I love every…
baseball: unc @ duke, game three
baseball: unc @ duke, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Seven. (Sometimes bombs + good starting pitching aren’t enough.)
baseball: unc @ duke, game two
baseball: unc @ duke, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Six. Yesterday’s game was a trainwreck of shitty pitching (on both sides) and bad umpiring (at first base). Game three takes the series today. It’s stopped raining, tickets are cheap, and there isn’t any other baseball going on in the Triangle today: why aren’t you…
the morning benders @ local 506
I always want to pat out-of-town bands soothingly on the shoulder after their repeated exhortations to a concert crowd on the subject of dancing fall completely flat. We should issue a public service announcement to bands who’ve never played in the CH or Carrboro before: “It isn’t anything personal, it’s just that the hipsters here…
a glass of wine and a good book
a glass of wine and a good book, originally uploaded by minervacat. An incomplete and totally subjective list of books about music that I have enjoyed: Dixie Lullaby, Mark Kemp. I’m not sure this is actually, objectively, a good book — it’s a little sloppy and a little biased in the author’s own musical tastes,…
i eat men like air
the night kitchen launch party, originally uploaded by minervacat. Saturday evening, I took some shots of delicious cupcakes for my friends Heather & Kala, and their bakery the Night Kitchen. (I took headshots for them last month, as well.) After a year of shooting all my food, I enjoy taking photos of food so much…
the morning benders — big echo
wrightsville beach, originally uploaded by minervacat. the morning benders, Big Echo. Out 3/9, Rough Trade Records. This is going to be kind of a big statement, but trust me, I don’t make it without having considered and considered and considered the new record from New-York-via-Berkeley’s the morning benders: I think that album-opener “Excuses” might just…
brand new kind of photography 